Preliminary studies of the neurones of Auerbach's plexus using intracellular microelectrodes.
Preliminary studies of the neurones of Auerbach's plexus using intracellular microelectrodes.
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使用细胞内微电极对奥尔巴赫神经丛神经元进行初步研究。
DOI:
10.1038/icb.1972.76
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发表时间:
1972
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I. Spence
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作者:
M. Holman;G. Hirst;I. Spence
It has been known sinee ancient times that intestines continue to undergo a series of complex movements after removal from the body; these include the peristaltic waves which help to bring ubont the onward tran. sport of the contents of the gut. Bayliss and Starling (1899) were among the first to use graphical methods to record intestinal motility. One of the conclusions they drew from their stndies oji the small intestine of anaesthetised dogs was that" peristaltic contractions are true co-ordinated reflexes, started by mechanical stimulation and carried out by the local nervous meclianisms (Aucrbach's plexus)". Subsequent work i) y, for example, Trendelenburg (1917). Paton and Zaimis (1949), Kosterlitz and his colleagues (Kosterlitz and Lees, 1964) has demonstrated that neurones within the wall of the gut are able to initiate and co-ordinate contraction and relaxation of both the mnscniar coats in an orderly secinence of events. There is general agrceinent that sensory neurones must exist within the nerve plexuses of the gut. Processes of some of these nenrones probably act as" stretch" receptors, responding to an increase in the volume or diameter of a segment (Kottegoda, 1970). Other sensory neurones may respond to other types of stimuli—chemical or mechanical. Very little is known of the specificity or otherwise of the responses of these neurones to different stimnli, their receptive fields are unknown and nothing is known about the way in which they adapt to continued stimulation. The terminals of primary afferent neurones (dorsal root ganglion cells) are also found within the wall of the gnt, and it is not impossible that collaterals from these neurones may interact with enteric neurones. However, there is no doubt that the peristaltic reflex can still be elicited after degeneration of extrinsie nerves (Biilbring, Lin and Schofield, 1958).There is good evidence that cholinergic neurones provide the motor inner-\'ation of both the loTigitudinal and circular layers of the gut (Burnstock, 1969). There is also good evidence that both musele layers are supplied with inhibitory nerve fibres arising from enterie neurones. The nature of the inhiliitory transmitter here is debatable, thongii Burnstock (1972) has provided evidence that it may be adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Bnrnstock has introduced the term'purinergic'to refer to these neurones.